Reader! do you feel that in some feeble measure this lofty life-motto of the sinless Son of God is written on your home and heart, regulating your actions, chastening your joys, quickening your hopes, giving energy and direction to your whole being, subordinating all the affections of your nature to their high destiny? With pure and unalloyed motives, with a single eye, and a single aim, can you say, somewhat in the spirit of His brightest follower, "This _one_ thing I do"? Are you ready to regard all you have--rank, name, talents, riches, influence, distinctions--valuable, only so far as they contribute to promote the glory of Him who is "first and last, and all in all"? Seek to feel that your heavenly Father's is not only _a_ business; but _the_ business of life. "Whose I am, and whom I serve,"--let this be the superscription written on your thoughts and deeds, your employments and enjoyments, your sleeping and waking. Be not, as the fixed stars, cold and distant; but be ever bathing in the sunshine of conscious nearness to Him who is the sun and center of all happiness and joy. Each has some appointed work to perform, some little niche in the spiritual temple to occupy. Yours may be no splendid services, no flaming or brilliant actions to blaze and dazzle in the eye of man. It may be the quiet, unobtrusive inner work, the secret prayer, the mortified sin, the forgiven injury, the trifling act of self-sacrifice for God's glory and the good of others, of which no eye but the Eye which seeth in secret is cognizant. It matters not how _small_. Remember, with Him, motive dignifies action. It is not _what_ we do, but _how_ we do it. He can be glorified in _little_ things as well as _great_ things, and by nothing more than the daily walk, the daily life. Beware of any thing that would interfere with a surrender of heart and soul to His service--worldly entanglements, indulged sin, an uneven walk, a divided heart, nestling in creature comforts, shrinking from the cross. How many hazard, if they do not make shipwreck, of their eternal hopes by becoming _idlers_ in the vineyard; lingerers, like Lot; world-lovers, like Demas; "do-nothing Christians," like the inhabitants of Meroz! The command is, "Go, work!" _Words_ tell what you _should_ be; _deeds_ tell what you _are_. Let those around you see there is a reality in walking _with_ God, and working _for_ God! "ARM YOURSELVES LIKEWISE WITH THE SAME MIND." Fourth Day. FORGIVENESS OF INJURIES. "Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do."--Luke, xxiii. 34.